Need help making my 1TB WD Blue HDD a Slave Drive

Setsukai · Apr 3, 2013

I have a 250GB SSD as my Master drive, and I'm trying to get my 1TB HDD to show up on my system, but I heard that to do that I need to make my HDD a slave. I got my jumper pin here, but I have no idea which of the 8 pins to put it over, and google has lead me to a bunch of different answers all pointing at different pins.

The model number (I think) is WD10EZEX if that helps.

ronintexas · Apr 3, 2013

With SATA drives, you don't need jumpers. If you install the SSD in the first channel of your SATA connectors, then the hard drive as the second, it should work fine. You will need to set your boot order in BIOS to reflect SSD then HDD.

Setsukai · Apr 3, 2013

How can I tell which one is the first? On my motherboard (Asus P8Z77-V LK), I have 4 blue and 2 white SATA connectors and I can't find that particular detail on my user manual.

ronintexas · Apr 3, 2013

The Gray SATA connectors are the SATA III (6GB) connectors - should be used for the SSD. The blue SATA connectors are SATA II - and should be used for the HDD & Optical Drive(s). Order won't matter.

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